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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RRDtool

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.In-memory JavaScript DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileWidely used in-process key-value storeIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSobjectbox.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperThomas MuellerObjectBox LimitedOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleTobias Oetiker
Initial release20052014201719941999
Current release2.2.220, July 202318.1.40, May 20201.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC and C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIProprietary native APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScriptC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesnono
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